SPINDLE
\spˈɪndə͡l], \spˈɪndəl], \s_p_ˈɪ_n_d_əl]\
Definitions of SPINDLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
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A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
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The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
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The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
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A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
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The fusee of a watch.
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A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
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Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
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To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
By Oddity Software
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In a spinning wheel or machine, the long, thin rod used for twisting and winding the thread; in spinning by hand, a round stick tapering at each end, on which the thread is twisted and held; a rod or pin on which anything turns.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The pin from which the thread is spun or twisted: a pin on which anything turns: the fusee of a watch.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A structure resembling a spinning-machine spindle ; an elongated peduncle bearing sessile flowers ; a spindle-shaped structure formed of achromatin fibres during mitosis.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The tapering rod or pin on which the thread is wound in spinning.
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Anything of like shape (see fusiform).
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] The long, slender rod in spinning-wheels by which the thread is twisted and wound ;-a slender, pointed pin on which any thing turns ; an axis or arbour;-the fusee of a watch;-a long, slender stalk ; -in manufactures, a quantity of yarn, thread, or silk put up together after it is taken from the reel.
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